March 2007

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Copper Market Outlook:
Red Metal Loses Some Lustre
Softening demand and unstable prices have left copper and brass distributors with concerns about 2007.

NASA Roundtable:
Steel’s Band of Brothers Stack Up Well
Members of the North American Steel Alliance, a buying co-op of small to midsize service centers, remain confident they can sustain the campaign against bigger competitors—with the support of their NASA comrades

Appliance Makers Shrug Off Housing Slump
A slowdown in the housing market was once a serious blow to the appliance industry, but consumer interest in new product designs and energy-saving innovations gives appliance manufacturers two reasons for optimism.

Fourth-Quarter Report: Service Centers
Inventory Issues Temper 2006 Results
In their fourth-quarter and year-end financial reports to analysts and shareholders, service center executives described their plans to deal with excess inventories, which impacted industry profitability late in 2006.

From the Editor's Desk
European Model's
Not So Attractive
By Tim Triplett,
Editor-In-Chief

Business Topics
Steel Industry's Navigating
Its Own Bumpy Route 66
By Tim Triplett,
Editor-In-Chief

Service Center News Home Page

  • Steel Technologies to be Acquired
    by Parner Mitsui & Co.
  • O'Neal Steel Forms
    High-Performance Metals Group
  • Metal Industry Supports Scouts
  • Southern Aluminum Finishing
    Opens California Operation
  • Cargill Purchases Tennessee
    Service Center Olympic Metals
  • Bushwick Acquires Koons Steel
  • Feralloy Purchases SCS System from Layhill
  • Obituary: Patrick J. Hanrahan
  • People
  • Briefs

Metal Industry News Home Page

  • ThyssenKrupp Seeks Southern Site
    for Major New Carbon, Stainless Mill
  • Novelis Agrees to Acquisition by India's Hindalco
  • U.S. Rules Mittal Must Divest Sparrows Point
  • Wolverine Completes Initial Phase
    of Recapitalization Plan
  • Extruded Metals Acquired by Mueller
  • Scott Brass Acquired by Sun Captial Partners
  • Restructured Stelco Back on Track
    After Closings, Fourth-Quarter Loss
  • AK Steel REaches Tentative
    Labor Pact at Middletown
  • IPSCO Reports Record Sales, Earnings
  • Indiana Ports Handle
    Record Cargo in 2006
  • Arcelor Mittal Strategy On Track
  • Esmark, NLMK, Duferco Venture
    Bids to Aquire Winner Steel
  • CMC Subsidiary Bids on Croatiab Pipe Mill
  • Briefs
  • People

Association News Home Page

  • Coalition Criticizes $232 Billion
    Trade Deficit with China
  • AIIS: Zeroing Practice Over on New Trade Cases
  • MSCI: Steel Shipments Start Year Behind 2006 Pace
  • AISI: Steel Imports, Shipments Drop Through Winter
  • CBSA: Copper Shipments Increase in 2006
  • NAM: Manufacturers Trade Group Releases Energy Strategy
  • PMA: Business Conditions On the Recovery
  • SSINA: Stainless Steel Imports, Consumption Up in 2006
 

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